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David González

Currently I am working on Ticketbis, but I’ve been through media companies, engineering and custom development.

These days I’m focused on our infrastructure scalability. However I also like working closely with the development team so they have the tools they need to deliver value at the rate they are able to generate it. I think changing anything that is not a bottleneck is a wasted effort.

I feel lucky to live my passion.
I love eating, cooking and, above all, being on the coach with my wife and daughter.

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Dave Moore

As Director of Software Services, Dave runs 8th Light’s Los Angeles office. When he isn’t helping support the craftsmen in LA, he is delivering code, running projects, and training developers at various client sites. Before opening 8th Light’s Los Angeles office, Dave worked as a consultant, and served the lead project manager for 8th Light’s studio team.

Throughout the years Dave has built software using a wide variety of technologies using best practices like TDD, pairing, continuous integration, etc. With full stack experience, Dave has spent a lot of time focusing on how to strengthen the integration points of software to ensure high availability.

Dave began developing software in high school, and qualified for multiple national software competitions in Java development and software engineering before going on to graduate from Northern Illinois University with a degree in business. He opened his own software company after college, and developed websites and apps for mom-and-pop shops.

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Peter Marshall

Pete Marshall is Technical Architect at Planday, and also runs Lean Software, an agile training and consulting company based in London and Madrid that helps business and software teams to deliver software quickly and successfully. His agile experience spans over 10 years, with practical experience implementing organisational, architectural, and engineering change in small, medium, and large enterprises.

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Joaquin Engelmo

Do you know that workmate that is always bothering you about testing, readability, naming and so on? Well, that’s me and I am not going to be different in my talk. Let me apologize in advance for the inconvenience 🙂 My sexy extremeño accent will conquer you even if you are not interested in what I am saying. Don’t worry: I’m used to it.

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Guillermo Gutiérrez

Guillermo is a guy that codes the crap out of software and likes functional programming. And beer and cats.

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Luis Artola

Luis is a fullstack software gardener who enjoys working from concept to cash.

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Enrique Amodeo

Currently Enrique Amodeo is a full stack software engineer at SoundCloud. There he writes highly scalable and resilient microservices using Scala and applying BDD. He has previous extensive experience as an independent consultant and coach, and has worked as senior software engineer at eBay. As an agile practitioner, he uses TDD/BDD and emergent design in his every day work and tries to travel light. With at least 15 years of experience, he has plenty of experience on how to apply Agile and TDD/BDD to build software, using either JS/HTML5/NodeJS, JAVA, or Scala. He is also interested in REST, noSQL, compilers, object oriented programming and functional programming.

Before moving to Berlin, he was cofounder and co-organizer of MadridJS local developers group (http://www.meetup.com/madridjs/) and the SpainJS international conference (http://spainjs.org/).

He has written two books:
* Principios de diseño de APIs REST (https://leanpub.com/introduccion_apis_rest)
* Learning Behavior-Driven Development with JavaScript (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1784392642?gwSec=1&redirect=true&ref_=s9_simh_gw_p14_d8_i1)

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Ricardo Borillo

I love teaching refactoring and working with teams at agileatwork.es. I’m proud to publish what I learn at programmeratwork.com and also to share some of my time helping programmers to grow at devscola.

In my spare time, I organize decharlas.com and work together with our entrepreneurs at startwars.es.

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Juan Ignacio Sánchez

Juan Ignacio is a backend engineer in CartoDB, a rapid changing codebase and a continuous integration challenge. He’s a Computer Science Engineer by University of Valladolid who has worked both in public (UVa, Junta de Castilla y León) and private (Telefonica, Thales) sector and whose passion for development led to startup world. Nowadays he deals with Ruby on Rails but his background covers many different technologies, from JEE or Scala to iOS. He enjoys Agile methodologies and techniques and he lead and Agile implementation and evolution.

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Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

Enrique has been crafting software for businesses since 1995 and has worked all over the world, building systems and leading teams in industries like artificial intelligence, gaming, insurance, telecoms, trading and the web. He has used a myriad of languages and frameworks, but over the years he has moved to simple solutions that get the job done in the most productive and elegant way.

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Fran Ávila

I´ve more than 10 years in IT, MCSD since 2004 and CSM since 2013 (but I started to play with XP in 2010). I´ve been Developer, Team Lead, Architect, Agile Companion, and whatever it takes. I moved to London in 2012 to be focus helping teams and organizations in their journey to be more agile. I’m a weirdo, BA in History, FPII in Software Development and currently studing Sociology, this help me to connect engineering and the human side of our business.

I studied Computer Science in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and have worked since then in the field of the Information Technologies for more than 25 years, playing management roles in multiple areas related with the software development for the financial sector: from SW Engineering to SW Architecture, to Quality Assurance, and to Technological Scouting.

After several years leading innovation projects with a robust foundation on design thinking techniques, in 2013 I had the opportunity to get involved in projects using Agile methodologies. During the last year I have played the role of Scrum Master for the team of Remote Management Tools in BBVA Spain.

I am a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and hold a credential as Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP). My thoughts about the Agile practices can be found at scrumastering.com.

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Maica Trinidad

Maica Trinidad is an expert on Enterprise Agile and Lean methods. She is specialised in:

Leadership and Team Management for Managers

Agile Product Development

Conflict Mediation in Agile Environments

Transition process to Agile Enterprise Culture

She comes from the Social Sciences world where for +20 years managed innovative programs with groups at social risk. She also worked in different participatory social research projects. 5 years ago she discovered Agile methodologies and began her enthusiastic collaboration with Agile Spain community as events facilitator and speaker. Currently she is a board member of Agile Spain Association.

Maica has helped several companies and teams in their transition to Agile and Lean Methodologies from startups to large international bank. She has large experience like trainer, specially in Scrum and Kanban tools.

Through Trend Research, Service Design and Agile Management, Manuela helps people, companies and organizations to design creative solutions to their challenges.

Currently teaching Trend Research and Design Thinking both at design schools and companies, she is also proud co-founder of initiatives such as _coworkshops and We Push, characterized by their strong collaborative and international spirit and by the focus on people, entrepreneurship and innovation. Manuela is the Managing Director of the Management for Creative Industries School at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Barcelona.

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Ulrich Schubert

Ulrich is a psychologist and a certified business coach specialized in coaching for expats, managers and entrepreneurs as well as a soft skills trainer in the field of leadership, team development and (intercultural) communication. He is founding partner of Coachingspiele SL and co-author of the German version of biopolis®, an innovative coaching tool in form of a board game. Ulrich is co-founder of _coworkshops, a training model focused on group dynamics, co-creation and visual prototyping of ideas and concepts.

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Robert Zapater

Robert Zapater has been interested in human behaviour and interactions since college. He joined the software industry as a developer and discovered that he had a passion for helping people understand each other and work together.

At King, his interests and the organisation’s needs led him to the scrum master role, which he is performing currently, working to create a positive and healthy environment for other developers to perform their craft and deliver awesome software.

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Andreu Tortajada Balada

Intrigued by technology since the first Spectrum appeared in his childhood, Andreu was educated in Valencia as a software engineer and began working on various projects in diverse sectors such as healthcare, banking, logistics … After these experiences, he noticed a common factor: people. Thus began his romance with agile concepts.

Andreu is now a Scrum Master in ADP in Barcelona and, along with working with his teams, is also dedicated to promoting cultural change in the organization towards a more agile environment.

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Sylvain Loubradou

Agile coach and cultural hacker

Has worked for 15 years in project management and as COO and CIO (from 30 to 300 people managed) in various european countries, in digital transforming companies. In his “adventures” he learned the importance and force of collaborative environments, through agile or lean methods, and the necesity to trust in women and men who are acompanying you in part of those “adventures”.
Since end of 2013 he works for companies as well public organizations who want to change their rules to their teams’ and customers’ benefits, in Spain as in France, using Kanban, Scrum, CCPM, VSM… empathy and common sense.

He is profesor at EAE business school and benevole in the education to apply new methodologies as flipped classrooms or scrum in multi disciplinary projects.

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María Belén Senra Galeano

María Belén Senra, BSc in Computer Science, with more than 10 years of experience in all the areas of software development, from requirement specification to testing. First as a software engineer in Argentina and Spain, then as team lead and manager for important projects involving research and development: e-voting system for the municipality and parliamentary elections in Norway (2011 and 2013) and the e-voting system for New South Wales parliamentary elections (Australia, 2015). In that challenging context she found her passion: Agile and Kaizen culture and began her journey as Scrum Master.

Currently working in that role at King, a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, her mission is growing teams by building the right climate where each member can feel they are part of a great, high-performance team.

Organizational change agent, she strongly believes in the power of people-first culture, self-organized teams and collaboration.

She encourages herself and others to discover new perspectives, insights and ideas for individual and team continuous improvement.

Pablo Rodríguez has worked as a freelance full-stack web developer since more than 10 years ago, specialized in LAMP stack, and focused on usability and accesibility.

In 2010 he co-founded Betabeers, a developers community which started locally in Madrid, but nowadays has spread not only through Spain, but also abroad.

He was hired as CTO, deploying agile methodologies, in startups like Sivarit, a mobile app to find local offers, and Nekuno, a recommendation service based on data from social network use. Nowadays, he is the Tetuan Valley event manager, coordinating the Startup School (and the process for its expansion), the logistics in the events hosted by Tetuan Valley and helping the alumni cohesion.

Simultaneously, he is an improv actor since 2006, working with the company Impro Impar and CÜÁ. Now he is improv teacher at Impro Impar.

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Alberto Méndez

Management of the Agile Sourcing model at Paradigma Technologico and Stratio Big Data

For many years, I have been using Agile methodologies across a range of different projects in companies with whom we have worked hand in hand. I have become a fervent advocate for Agile methodologies giving talks and coaching session throughout Spain and abroad. This passion has lead me to spread the word about Agile methodologies throughout the world of traditional outsourcing, making a qualitative leap forward to the supply of manpower and the development and adaptation of this model to build skills appropriate teams and deliver more value to the end customer. My vision goes beyond just using it in traditional outsourcing though, it includes other levels like the relationship between Partners and distribution channels, absolutely anything is possible and completely adaptable.

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Gerard Chiva

Passionate about organizational behavior, psychology, coaching, systems theory, lean and agile, Gerard has more than 15 years of experience in technology, management and leadership, specializing in team coaching and change management.

Currently supporting eDreams ODIGEO in its digital transformation journey as Lean and Agile Coach, Gerard studied Computer Engineering, holds a Master’s Degree in Personal and Executive Coaching and is also a professional coach by the International Coaching Federation.

I am not a coach, I do coaching. I am not a facilitator, I create learning spaces. I am not a teacher, I partnership student to be engineers.

What I do does not define me. I am much more than what I can imagine. Can you help me to discover it?

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Esther Sanz Pastor

Esther Sanz is a Lean Project Manager in Liferay, she coaches engineering teams to continuously improve and deliver a high quality product following a Lean approach. Previously, she was working as a consultant in Lean rollouts in software development projects all over the word, achieving process efficiency and productivity gains through the application of Lean six sigma tools, she also trained and help teams to apply agile methodologies. Before that, she worked as a project manager in software development projects where she started to experiment with agile techniques. She believes Lean is much more than a set of tools, it is a way to look at things, a philosophy to be applied in your life (professional and personal) which drives you to improve every day.

I believe in the strength of the people, I trust in the power of self-managed development teams, and the usefulness of agile development methodologies.

I work since 2010 in Madrid as Scrum Master and Software Engineer at Amplía Soluciones S.L. in projects for companies such as Endesa and Telefonica.

I also have worked in Gijón between 2006 and 2010 as a researcher in the Department of Systems and Automation Engineering of the Oviedo University, and as Scrum Master and Software Engineer at DSIPlus on projects for companies such as ArcelorMittal or CAPSA.

João is passionate about new ways of working that empower all the stakeholders. He works as Enterprise Agile Coach blending Change Management, Coaching, Management 3.0, LeSS and SAFe frameworks to deliver successful Enterprise transformations.

Currently helping one of the biggest transformations in the Banking sector, he also help transforming 3 of the biggest Telecommunication companies in Europe.

Xavier Albaladejo is specialized in enterprise transformation based onAgile-Lean principles. As Agile Senior Expert in AXA MedLA IT (Mediterranean and Latin America Region), he is introducing Agile as part of the Digital transformation of the countries of this Region, with the aim of increasing their speed and flexibility to better adapt to customers’ needs.

Xavier coordinates a Postgraduate on Agile at La Salle, he is CertifiedScrum Practitioner by the Scrum Alliance, he foundedwww.proyectosagiles.org and Agile Barcelona and he has been president of Agile Spain.

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Eduardo Ribeiro

Agile Coach at Betfair/Blip, responsible for providing guidance and support in agile concepts and principles to multiple teams distributed across 4 locations (Portugal, United Kingdom, Ireland and Romania).

Passionate about transforming people’s minds and businesses. Transforming in such a way that they achieve great costumer satisfaction by using and being fully Agile. This way answering very quickly to the constant changes of the world and the business needs.

Pedro Gustavo Torres is an Agile Coach @ SONAE, in Porto, Portugal.
He started doing / being agile since 2010. He’s an experienced Scrum Master and Agile Coach. He also has experience acting as a Scrum Product Owner. He’s passionate about scrum, agile and all the practices that can help teams deliver early value to their customers.

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Unai Roldán

Enterprise Agile Coach passionate by new technologies and Agile management. Lean & Management 3.0 believer and continuous improvement enthusiast to focus the organizations to an high level of efficiency.

I have been in the IT business for 10+ years where I have deep experience leading enterprise software initiatives and software solutions for the Education, Energy & Utilities, Transport and Banking industries. I have participated in enterprise agile transformation engagements and I have 5+ years experience with Agile Methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), etc.

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Jerónimo Palacios

Jerónimo is a Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Trainer and an Agile Coach. He supports large corporations transition from process-centric to value-centric, working at strategic level with top management and C-execs as well as with teams at the shop floor, providing options to make each strategic change supported by tactical changes in the day-to-day work, using a co-active coaching style. He focus on people and helps to energise the organisation, pointing to barriers in communication and helping individuals devise and break them by creating new ways of working as the key factor to spark a cultural change. He’s a proven track record of successes in Telco, Banking and Public Sector. He owns a portfolio of techniques and frameworks to achieve those though. His area of influence includes the British isles, Continental Europe and South America.